“The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they’re in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them in when they’re in saltwater. And I hear it gets even more complicated once they’re smoked.”

Not much of a joke. But it got more laughs than his others, Politico says.

The camera then pans to Gary Locke, the zany secretary of commerce who knows a thing or two about salmon from his days as Washington state’s governor.